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The GENDEV Network |
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The Gender Research Network was initiated by the CGIAR Gender Program and was later sponsored by the USAID/WID "Strengthening Development Policy Through Gender Analysis" project at IFPRI to link researchers at CGIAR centers, national research institutes, and universities involved in gender and intrahousehold research. The network included GENDEV (formerly Gender CG), an e-mail network; a printed newsletter; Gender-Prop, an e-mail conference on gender and property rights (now concluded); and a Gender and Development Policy Discussion simultaneous with brown bag Seminars on "Gender and Development Policy".
GENDEV ceased its activities in 2002.
The Gender CG Newsletter
The Gender CG Newsletter is intended to be a hardcopy complement to the GENDEV (formerly Gender CG) Network, an electronic network that connects researchers working on gender and intrahousehold issues in the areas of agriculture, natural resources management, food security, and nutrition.
The Gender-Prop International E-Mail ConferenceThe Gender-Prop e-mail conference, held from June 1995 to March 1996, grew out of an e-mail network on gender research called GENDEV* when interest in a more focused discussion on the theme of property rights was identified in a survey a survey of GENDEV memebers. This conference was shaped around a discussion of three, specially commissioned papers on the themes of gender differences in rights to agricultural land, trees and forests, and water. The papers were distributed in hard copy to all participants. After a period of general introduction, we discussed each paper for approximately a month, then moved on to the next. Each session was structured like a conventional conference: presentation of key issues by the author of the lead paper, commentary by two formal discussants, and general discussion and replies from the papers' authors. One or two of the conference organizers acted as moderator for each topic. The conference concluded with a wrap-up discussion of cross-cutting themes. Moderators for the conference were Lynn R. Brown, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Hilary Feldstein (CGIAR Gender Program), and Agnes Quisumbing. *The GENDEV network, originally funded by the CGIAR Gender Program and based at IFPRI, now is included in the broad program support for IFPRI research on gender issues by the United States Agency for International Development's Office of Women in Development (USAID/WID).
Commissioned Papers
Revised versions of the commissioned papers appear in the August 1997 issue of World Development. This special section also includes two other papers: the moderators' introduction, detailing the background and dynamics of an electronic conference and summarizing each of the three commissioned papers; and a second paper examining the issues relating to gender and property rights and integrating cross-cutting issues arising from the conference discussion:
Gender and Property Rights Proceedings This Proceedings Volume contains all the e-mail dialogue with reference to each commissioned paper, including the presentation of key issues, discussant comments, and the ensuing electronic postings which constitute the general discusssion of the paper. There has been minimal editing of the e-mails posted to the conference.
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